Speaking of sharp knives, when I was a kid, we used to play "mumbly peg", where you have to flip a knife off the tip of your fingers and make it land on the ground so that it stuck. Another one was "territory" where you threw a knife down in a rectangular area drawn on the ground with the knife or a stick. Each time a person would throw, the area it landed in would be divided into two parts depending on the angle of the blade. I believe the opponent would then pick which of the two parts they would keep as their territory. The goal was to cut the other person's territory down to a size too small to step in (but my memory of both of these games is sketchy :) ) I grew up with rednecks, so there were guns and knives :)